Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family.

Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).

I ain't never done nothin' that wasn't part sin.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.

I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

Medicine is incredibly ritualistic.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.